The Vanishing - Tim Krabbe

Posted : 3 years ago at Nov 18 6:58

Not many books can claim to have been filmed on more than one occasion although as Hollywood becomes more of a recycling plant than a hotbed of imagination that will soon go out the window. Published in 1984 as Het Gouden Ei (The Golden Eye), Tim Krabbé's short psychological thriller was filmed in 1988 as the brilliant Spoorloos, which suffered that greatest indignity of cinema in 1991: the American remake. Rex and Saskia are in love. Very much so. And one day, while driving through Europe, they stop at a petrol station in France. Saskia, offering to drive the next leg of their journey to Nuits-St-George heads into the shop to get Rex a beer. She doesn't come back. Just vanishes. Eight years later and Rex is in love with Lieneke, is pondering making her his bride, but he can't let...Read more

Rating : 8/10